27+ Successful American Actor Tom Hanks Quotes

Find the popular quotes collection by Tom Hanks who is an American actor and filmmaker. When ever you think about his roles you will always find his name in the best comedic and dramatic film roles list.

Tom Hanks Popular Quotes

If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

It’s just as hard… staying happily married as it is doing movies.

And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.

I’ve made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

It’s always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It’s hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s just not December without that movie in my house.

At the end of the day it’s got to be a good movie, it’s got to be a funny movie, and it’s got to make people think, ’Hey, I couldn’t have spent my time any better.’

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Tom Hanks Inspirational Quotes

I want to have a good time myself. I don’t want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that

Some people are cowards… I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they’ve got to make that choice.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature

It is meant to make people think, ‘How in the world did we do that, and isn’t it a marvelous thing that we did?

My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

Great Motivational Quotes by Tom Hanks

Show up on time. Know your lines. Have an idea of what to do in the scene. the rest will take care of itself.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, ‘That was a good day.’ I am one of those who worries and asks, ‘How did I screw up today?

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

There’s millions of survivors out there make it one million and one

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

If you’re funny, if there’s something that makes you laugh, then every day’s going to be okay.

If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.

I went to college because I didn’t have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn’t know was possible.

I will entertain anything; it doesn’t matter. You know, it’s not obviously about the price, it’s not about who, it’s kind of about when and what. It’s material, that’s all.